season that people are willing to take a tax hike if they feel that revenue will be used for things like education, infrastructure, job-creating things. also, you can look across the atlantic to europe and see that austerity really isn't working. there are some new monetary funds figures out that show companies that are cutting and not investing in the economy are actually doing work, so you can use that to push the agenda forward. >> congress has been an obstructionist, congress has been a problem, but that's a real divide between americans who are willing to put a lot of responsibility for the lack of economic progress in washington on congress. a times poll found that congress had an approval rating of 16%. what, honestly can he do? he's tried different chiefs of staff, he's tried different approaches to congress. what's the special sauce? how does he get back and say, we have to go and we have to change things for america. >> there are many ingredients to a special sauce and some of them are personal. the president will have to do a better job building better relations with republicans. the re